For me, It started in 2004. Seeing Barack Obama at the 2004 DNC Convention Speech was magic to me. Not because he was "new" or "fresh" - It was magic to me because he understood my situation. Ever since I was young, my mother had been alienated from her parents. I had witnessed tears and embarrassment, harsh words and violent gestures - all because of partisan politics. I realized at an abnormally young age, the destructiveness of the separation between the "red states and blue states". For me, in 2004, Barack offered something new.
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